If driving on Dutch motorways, keep in mind that the speed limit is a blanket 100 km/h every day between 6am and 7pm, no matter what your satnav might tell you.
You don't need a breath test kit for France any more. They dropped the requirement about 4 years ago.
Never was a requirement in the other countries mentioned
Once and only once.
England 1-2 Scotland at Wembley 1977. That was the year those lovely Scots folk invaded the pitch afterwards and broke the goalposts.
Game was shit, but I did get to sit next to* Rod Stewart at lunch before the game...
*All right, back-to-back really - he was at the...
I used to feel that way (I haven't lived in the UK for 36 years), but the way the Tories have been screwing with all my family and friends in the UK for the past decade and more means I'll do anything within my power to support my loved ones. The UK government has given me back my vote, so I'm...
It's more than good. It should be compulsory in my opinion (as it is in Belgium and some other places). It's a civic duty. Although all voting forms should have a 'none of the above' option for when all the candidates are shit, which they often are.
As someone wise once said, if you don't...
Always admired his honesty the last time I saw him play live, ca. 2005 when The Quality of Mercy came out:
"I know you're all here for the hits, but it's taken me nine years to make this new record, so we're f**king well going to play it!"
He also had a big soft spot for the Netherlands, as it...
Best phone number I know belonged to a girl I once knew (or more accurately, to her parents):
Puddletown 500
Straight out of Trumpton... And that's as 'recently' as the 1980s
I do like a good western. So many greats to choose from
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
High Noon
The Searchers
Dead Man
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Cat Ballou
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Soldier Blue
High Plains Drifter...
I think that's mainly wishful thinking/straw clutching on the part of the Tories, and the article makes it out to be worse than it actually is. I'm one of the 2.2 million (or 3 million, depending on your source) UK citizens who've lived long-term overseas but got our right to vote in the UK back...